Fluor agrees to design major gas-to-methanol project in Louisiana

Fluor was awarded an engineering and design services contract by South Louisiana Methanol for a potential 5,000 tpd methanol project. It would be built in St. James Parish.

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Fluor was awarded an engineering and design services
contract by South Louisiana Methanol for a potential 5,000
tpd methanol project in St. James Parish,
Louisiana, officials said on Monday.

Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the third
quarter of 2013.

The project will be located at a site in
St. James Parish, Louisiana, near the Mississippi River. Fluor
is working to finalize the process design and complete
preliminary design for the facility.

The project is being led by Fluors
Southern California office with assistance from its office
in New Delhi, India.

South Louisiana Methanol L.P., a gas-to-methanol
project, is being developed by the Todd Corp. and ZEEP
Management. Further details on the project, which South Louisiana
Methanol says will be the largest methanol plant in North America, can be read here.

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I have spend lot of year in ng to methanol technology and operated unit. 5000MTPD unit design is either done by Lurgi or previuously AKer Kaverner and now IHI. I as Fluor technical director has worked at fluor Irvine office and is one of the very best Fluor office which is technology oriented.